"Terrorism is not an enemy. It cannot be defeated. It's a tactic. It's about as sensible to say we declare war on night attacks and expect we're going to win that war. We're not going to win the war on terrorism. And it does whip up fear. Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few."

updated Thu. April 26, 2018

Ex-Director of the NSA Gen. William Odom correctly called the U.S. invasion the greatest strategic blunder in American history. But Bush, un-chastened, went on to preach a crusade for democracy with the goal of "ending tyranny in our world." What is the root of these astounding beliefs -- that Stalin would be a partner ...

Ex-Director of the NSA Gen. William Odom correctly called the U.S. invasion the greatest strategic blunder in American history. But Bush, un-chastened, went on to preach a crusade for democracy with the goal of "ending tyranny in our world." What is the root of these astounding beliefs -- that Stalin wouldÃÂ ...

George W. Bush, with the U.S. establishment united behind him, invaded Iraq with the goal of creating a Vermont in the Middle East that would be a beacon of democracy to the Arab and Islamic world. Ex-Director of the NSA Gen. William Odom correctly called the U.S. invasion the greatest strategic blunderÃÂ ...

George W. Bush, with the U.S. establishment united behind him, invaded Iraq with the goal of creating a Vermont in the Middle East that would be a beacon of democracy to the Arab and Islamic world. Ex-Director of the NSA Gen. William Odom correctly called the U.S. invasion the greatest strategic blunderÃÂ ...

Ex-Director of the NSA Gen. William Odom correctly called the U.S. invasion the greatest strategic blunder in American history. But Bush, un-chastened, went on to preach a crusade for democracy with the goal of "ending tyranny in our world." What is the root of these astounding beliefs -- that Stalin ...

President Jimmy Carter's national-security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was asleep in Washington, D.C., when the phone rang. His military aide, General William Odom, was calling to inform him that two hundred and twenty missiles launched from Soviet submarines were heading toward the United States.

His military aide, General William Odom, was calling to inform him that two hundred and twenty missiles launched from Soviet submarines were ... Their populations—composed in the main of the younger generation, which is restless, increasingly nationally self-conscious and more intensely Islamic inÃÂ ...

Michael Hayden says they may have been leaked by insiders, most likely young CIA recruits, from the generation known as millennials. ... One more recent predecessor as NSA director was an Army General named William Odom, and Odom when he heard about Hayden, almost couldn't control himself.

Another former NSA director, Army Gen. William Odom, told an interviewer on Jan. 4, 2006, that Hayden 'should have been court-martialed.' “This sad reality was known to CBS and our mainstream media colleagues before Hayden was confirmed as CIA director on May 18, 2006, but we were successful inÃÂ ...

Perhaps equally important, Odom was never a CNN general, broadcasting the Pentagon's talking points to a cable news audience. Amid the hysterical chatter over the global war on terrorism, he never lost sight of the larger issues of strategy. Odom's work speaks for itself. The Collapse of the Soviet MilitaryÃÂ ...

Washington has its share of retired generals who go on TV and blather the administration line fed them, we have recently learned, at private Pentagon briefings. And then there was Bill Odom. A retired three-star general who was once a senior officer on President Carter's national-security staff and laterÃÂ ...

William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency under President Reagan, passed away on Friday in Lincoln, Vermont. A West Point graduate, Gen. Odom served for 34 years until retiring in 1988. Specializing in Russian and Soviet affairs, Gen. Odom earned a Ph.D from Columbia University inÃÂ ...

In addition to the president, a number of people and groups have supported increased US force levels. As General Colin Powell has said, before we consider sending additional US troops, we must examine what missions they will have. I would add that we ask precisely what those troops must do to reverseÃÂ ...

Gen. William Odom says Vice President Cheney has it all wrong when he warns that the U.S. must stay in Iraq because failure there could prompt collapse elsewhere. In fact, now it looks like a new Arab-Israeli war could be breaking out precisely because our actions in Iraq have emboldened Iran and Syria.

Under the plan, Hungarian forces were meant to capture what was left of Vienna while Czechoslovak troops would be send into post-atomic Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart. The offensive would halt at the Rhine, similar to the plan presented by the fictional General Orlov in the 1983 James Bond filmÃÂ ...

I will just like to offer my five cents worth of contribution to all those discussions about the uncertainty that the entire world is facing now. In recent times, it is noticeable that the number of suicide bombings and senseless killings of human beings by terrorists seems to be on the rise. So far it seems that onlyÃÂ ...

President Jimmy Carter's national-security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, was asleep in Washington, D.C., when the phone rang. His military aide, General William Odom, was calling to inform him that two hundred and twenty missiles launched from Soviet submarines were heading toward the United States.

His military aide, General William Odom, was calling to inform him that two hundred and twenty missiles launched from Soviet submarines were ... Their populations—composed in the main of the younger generation, which is restless, increasingly nationally self-conscious and more intensely Islamic inÃÂ ...

Michael Hayden says they may have been leaked by insiders, most likely young CIA recruits, from the generation known as millennials. ... One more recent predecessor as NSA director was an Army General named William Odom, and Odom when he heard about Hayden, almost couldn't control himself.

Michael Hayden says they may have been leaked by insiders, most likely young CIA recruits, from the generation known as millennials. ... One more recent predecessor as NSA director was an Army General named William Odom, and Odom when he heard about Hayden, almost couldn't control himself.

Another former NSA director, Army Gen. William Odom, told an interviewer on Jan. 4, 2006, that Hayden 'should have been court-martialed.' “This sad reality was known to CBS and our mainstream media colleagues before Hayden was confirmed as CIA director on May 18, 2006, but we were successful inÃÂ ...

Perhaps equally important, Odom was never a CNN general, broadcasting the Pentagon's talking points to a cable news audience. Amid the hysterical chatter over the global war on terrorism, he never lost sight of the larger issues of strategy. Odom's work speaks for itself. The Collapse of the Soviet MilitaryÃÂ ...

Washington has its share of retired generals who go on TV and blather the administration line fed them, we have recently learned, at private Pentagon briefings. And then there was Bill Odom. A retired three-star general who was once a senior officer on President Carter's national-security staff and laterÃÂ ...

William Odom, former head of the National Security Agency under President Reagan, passed away on Friday in Lincoln, Vermont. A West Point graduate, Gen. Odom served for 34 years until retiring in 1988. Specializing in Russian and Soviet affairs, Gen. Odom earned a Ph.D from Columbia University inÃÂ ...

In addition to the president, a number of people and groups have supported increased US force levels. As General Colin Powell has said, before we consider sending additional US troops, we must examine what missions they will have. I would add that we ask precisely what those troops must do to reverseÃÂ ...

Gen. William Odom says Vice President Cheney has it all wrong when he warns that the U.S. must stay in Iraq because failure there could prompt collapse elsewhere. In fact, now it looks like a new Arab-Israeli war could be breaking out precisely because our actions in Iraq have emboldened Iran and Syria.

Under the plan, Hungarian forces were meant to capture what was left of Vienna while Czechoslovak troops would be send into post-atomic Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart. The offensive would halt at the Rhine, similar to the plan presented by the fictional General Orlov in the 1983 James Bond filmÂ ...

Lt General (R) Asad Durrani is a former Director-General of Pakistan's ... Pakistan, the American General William Odom, and me, terrorism — 'targeting .... But a new generation of jihadis saw the world very differently: why fightÂ ...

It is the younger generation that understands new technology. ... Ray McGovern: It is very painful to hear General Hayden say those things, ... was an Army General named William Odom, and Odom when he heard aboutÂ ...

Gen. Hayden was the first director of NSA to violate his oath to the U.S. ... Yet, former NSA directors William Odom and Bobby Ray Inman spoke ... And President Bush “should be impeached,” added the general with equal fury.